naijaXclusive: surrogate mothers

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Nigerian ladies have devised another survival strategy by getting pregnant for childless couples for a fee. These ladies, called surrogate mothers, have even taken to the internet to advertise themselves to couples who are desperately in need of children. <a href="http://www.gistnaija.com/2013/03/revealed-nigerian-ladies-paid-to-get.html#more" name="more" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"></a> Surrogacy is a process whereby willing ladies are contacted by either couples or fertility clinics to help carry pregnancies on behalf of childless couples. It often happens where married women find it difficult getting pregnant or where they have issues with their wombs. Through medical science, a couple’s sperm and egg are collected and fertilised and then implanted into the surrogate mother who in-turn carries the pregnancy till it is due for delivery. The surrogate mother may then be flown out of the country or kept away from prying eyes and monitored till she is delivered of the baby. Most of these Nigerian women who registered on <a href="http://www.surrogatefinder.com/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-decoration: none;">www.surrogatefinder.com</a>, have their photographs on the website with assurances to their prospective customers that they would offer effective service. The website, which listed the surrogate mothers according to their states of residence, also has a breakdown of their data. It also has registered sperm and egg donors with their details. Lagos state has 103 registered surrogate 
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5438533803477296299" name="more"></a> mothers on the list and this is the highest. The state is followed by Edo with 14. 
 
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While Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city has seven of such registered surrogate mothers, Enugu, Rivers, and Ogun have five each. The list further shows that Delta has four surrogate mothers. Other
 states on the website include Anambra, Kaduna, Ondo and Cross River 
with two each and Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Ekiti, Kwara and Oyo with one 
each. In Lagos, Ipaja has the highest number at 13. This is closely 
followed by Ikeja, 12, Lagos Island, 11, Surulere, eight, Bariga, and 
Eko with five each, Ikoyi, Isolo, Ikotun, Oshodi, and Alimosho with four
 each. Igando
 and Badagry areas of the state have three, Agege, Apapa, Isheri, and 
Ebute Metta have two each while Abule Ijesha, Ejigbo, Amuwo, Idi Oro, 
Oworonshoki, Maryland, Jibowu, Ifako, and Egbe have one each. Ruth, one 
of the registered surrogate mothers, who resides in Asaba and aged 23, said she would not mind becoming a surrogate mother for couples. She described herself as having brown hair and brown eyes. She said she is an honest person interested in making families happy. “I
 know what’s like not having a child of your own. I want to give you 
that gift and hope to bring joy and blessing to your home,” she stated 
in her message to prospective customers. Temitayo, a 28-year old lady resident in Abuja, said she was willing to travel to any part of the world to have the baby for her customer. 
 
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She
 said: “Since the death of my parents I’ve been working myself to death 
to take care of my kid sister. If I can be paid to put a smile on the 
face of a couple who can’t have children and also with the money to take
 care of myself and my sister, what more can I ask for?” Another surrogate mother,
 28 year-old Joy, said she had seen a lot of couples in churches in 
search of babies and “I feel bad that some of us don’t want so much but 
have the ability to bring life when wanted while others do not.” The
 lady, who said she is only interested in rendering assistance in that 
regard, added: “with me and your promise to take care of the baby, your 
desires are only nine months away.” Loveth, a 32-year old mother of 
three and resident of Ipaja, said she believes God could use her to 
answer people’s prayers since it is painful to live without children. “Just
 put your trust in God, He will surely do it. Also, I pray in the 
journey of putting smiles on people’s faces, I will not regret because l
 am ready to help you,” she said. Chinyere Maryann, resident in Benin, simply said: “I don’t know what to say but I can assure you that if you choose me as your surrogate mother to your unborn, I will not disappoint you.” Oke,
 27 and resident of Ipaja, said she has black hair and brown eyes. “You 
won’t regret having your baby with me. I am perfectly healthy…my results
 show that,” she said. Faith,
 a 30-year old resident of Abuja, in her message to couples who need her
 service, said she was in the business to contribute to producing 
children for very desperate couples. “Children
 bring happiness to homes and since I am not married and can’t afford 
raising a child, I will be very happy to have that experience of 
carrying a child that will bring joy to a family,” she said. Though
 none of them stated how much she was willing to collect for such 
service, it was learnt that the couples cough out huge amounts to get 
their babies through surrogacy. A
 fertility clinic staff in Lagos told NE that there were several other 
women who were into it but who are not known to the people in the 
streets. “First, there is an agreement between the surrogate mother and the fertility clinic and the couples may or may not know who the surrogate mother is, but I can tell you that couples spend millions on this process of having babies,” she said.

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